Monthly Archive for February, 2010

: February, 2010

LAKE PLACID _ OK, so my timing was a little bit off. Thirty years off, to be exact. I sat in hotel room here with friends today to watch the U.S. try to win an Olympic gold medal in hockey. They fell …

I’ll admit it. I don’t know what it takes to be a good governor. David Paterson, who announced today he won’t run in November, struck me when he was inaugurated in March 2008 as an inspiring (because …

Why can’t we get trains to work? I had a friend come in from Rochester today who was assured when she boarded the train at 8:27 this morning that since the bad weather was mostly in Albany and to the …

I read somewhere that when young people are optimistic, they tend to have babies, which accounted for the boom in births that I was part of after World War II. I now think it’s also true that when old …

Checking my e-mail today, I came across a nice note from a guy in Buffalo who pointed out to me that former SUNY Chancellor D. Bruce Johnstone was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer 16 years ago but is …